The opening track of Jeff Wayne’s 1978 concept album Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. A rock opera based on H. G. Wells’s classic 1898 science fiction novel The War of the Worlds, the album tells the story of an invasion of Earth by grotesque beings from the planet Mars, who conquer the planet using massive mechanical tripods armed with a heat-ray that incinerates everything it touches. The Eve of the War begins the first act of the album, subtitled The Coming of the Martians.

Jeffry "Jeff" Wayne (born 1 July 1943) is an American-born naturalized British composer, musician and lyricist. In 1978 he released Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds, his musical adaptation of H. Wells' science-fiction novel The War of the Worlds. Wayne wrote approximately 3,000 advertising jingles in the 1970s which appeared on television in the United Kingdom, notably a Gordon's Gin commercial which was covered by The Human League.

Album: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of the War of the Worlds, 2005. Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment. The Eve of the War · Jeff Wayne, 傑夫偉恩 · Richard Burton · Justin Hayward. The War Of The Worlds. 2005 Ollie Record Productions, exclusively licensed to Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited. Released on: 2009-06-11

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There is a Canadian 12" single in a picture sleeve (very low numbers), similar to the sleeve on the coloured vinyl Jeff Wayne Thunderchild release. I think the releases listed here are all for the generic record companyversion (plain black jacket). When I eventually find a copy I will post it!!